Concrete drill

ABSTRACT

A concrete drill for drilling concrete or the like by a diamond bit ( 5 ) attached to a front end of a bit drive shaft ( 4 ) projected forward from a main body ( 1 ) by driving to rotate the bit drive shaft ( 4 ) by a drive source ( 2 ) contained in the main body ( 1 ) in which the main body ( 1 ) is provided with a vibrating apparatus ( 8 ) for exerting a vibrating force a magnitude which is pulsated to change along the bit drive shaft ( 4 ) to the main body ( 1 ).

The application is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2002-10739filed on Jan. 18, 2002 and the content thereof is incorporated herein byreference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a concrete drill for boring a hole forattaching an anchor or the like to concrete.

BACKGROUND ART

Currently, there are known a hammer drill and a diamond drill asconcrete drills for boring a hole for mounting an anchor to a wall orthe like constructed by concrete. A hammer drill subjects concrete toimpact fracture to drill by rotating a drill bit attached with asintered carbide tip at a front end there of while exerting a strikingforce in an axial direction, a drilling speed is fast, prices of the bitand a concrete drill per se are inexpensive and therefore, a rate ofspreading the hammer drill is high, however, there poses a problem thatextremely large noise is emitted in operation.

The hammer drill rotates the drill bit and exerts an impulsive strikingforce and therefore, impact of the drill bit is directly propagated to awall to vibrate the wall, vibration generated at a room at whichoperation is carried out is propagated in a wall or the like andpropagated to a remote room as structural body propagating sound to emitlarge noise in a wide range. Therefore, there poses a problem that thehammer drill utilizing impact cannot be used in construction at a livingsite where living and sale are being carried on as in reforming or thelike.

Meanwhile, according to a diamond drill, a front end of a bit in acylindrical shape is attached with a tip embedded with diamond particlesin a metal referred to as metal bond, and drilling is carried out bymaking the diamonds embedded in the tip at the front end bite concreteto polish by rotating the diamond bit. The size of a single particle ofthe diamond is about 400 micrometers, a single piece of the bit includesabout 1500 particles of the diamond particles, the fine diamondparticles cut concrete to drill and therefore, small sound is emitted,structural body propagating sound as in the hammer drill is not emitted,the sound is considerably low at a remote room to enable to carry outconstruction at a living site.

In the case of the diamond drill, in order to accelerate the drivingspeed, there is needed a predetermined pressing force for pressing thediamond tip to a concrete face. For example, in boring a large holehaving a hole diameter of about 40 mm or larger, a fast drilling speedat low sound is realized by pressing the bit to concrete by fixing atool of an installed type having a feeding mechanism to a wall face by asmall-sized anchor and exerting a large pressing force by the feedingapparatus. Further, in boring a hole of up to about 12 mm, the diamonddrill can sufficiently be reduced to practice even by a pressing forceto a degree of capable of being pressed to a wall face by an operatoralthough the drilling speed is slightly reduced.

However, the pressing force in pressing the concrete drill to theconcrete face unforcibly by the operator is said to be limited to about15 kgf in the horizontal direction and in the case of an anchor holehaving a hole diameter of 16 through 38 mm, a large pressing forcelarger than 15 kgf is needed. In boring a hole about 16 through 38 mm,an operational time period is not so much prolonged and therefore, theinstalled type tool having the feed apparatus is not used but ahand-head tool is used, however, the larger the drilling diameter, thelarger the contact area of the diamond tip and concrete and therefore,there poses a problem that the drilling speed is retarded since asufficient pressing force is not exerted to the hand-head tool.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

It is a problem of the invention to provide a concrete drill which doesnot emit structural body propagating sound emitted in drilling by ahammer drill and can make a drilling time period shorter.

In order to resolve the above-described problem, the invention ischaracterized in a concrete drill for drilling concrete or the like byrotating a drill bit attached to a front end of a bit drive shaftprojected forward from a main body by driving to rotate the bit driveshaft by a drive source contained in the main body, wherein a vibratingapparatus for exerting a vibrating force, a magnitude of which ispulsated to change along the bit drive shaft to the main body, isprovided at the main body.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a side view of a concrete drill according to an embodiment ofthe invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a concrete drill the same as that ofFIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a vibrating apparatus of theconcrete drill of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view showing an essential mechanism of thevibrating apparatus of FIG. 3.

FIG. 5 is a side view of a concrete drill according to other embodimentof the invention.

FIG. 6 is a vertical sectional view for a vibrating apparatus of theconcrete drill of FIG. 5.

FIG. 7 is a side view of a concrete drill according to still otherembodiment of the invention.

FIG. 8 is a vertical sectional view of a vibrating apparatus of theconcrete drill of FIG. 7.

Further, in notations of the drawings, numeral 1 designates a main body,numeral 2 designates a motor, numeral 3 designates a drive shaft,numeral 4 designates a bit drive shaft, numeral 5 designates a diamondbit, numeral 6 designates a grip, numeral 7 designates an auxiliarygrip, numeral 8 designates a vibrating apparatus, numeral 9 designates abracket portion, numeral 10 designates a frame member, numeral 11designates a rotating shaft, numeral 12 designates an eccentric weight,numeral 13 designates a gear, numeral 14 designates a motor, numeral 15designates a vibrating apparatus, numeral 16 designates a belt, numeral17 designates a cylindrical rotating member, numeral 18 designates aspiral groove, numeral 19 designates a weight, numeral 20 designates aprojection, numeral 21 designates a vibrating apparatus, numeral 22designates a guide rod, numeral 23 designates a weight, numeral 24designates a movable coil, numeral 25 designates a magnet, and numeral26 designates a damper.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

An explanation will be given of a mode for carrying out the inventionbased on embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 thought FIG. 4 show aconcrete drill according to a first embodiment of the invention. Theconcrete drill drills concrete by rotating the diamond bit 5 attached toa front end of the bit drive shaft 4 projected from a front end of themain body 1 by rotating the bit drive shaft 4 connected to the driveshaft 3 by rotating the drive shaft 3 at inside of the main body 1 bypower of the motor 2 contained in the main body 1. An operator pressesthe diamond bit 5 to a concrete face by grabbing the grip 6 formed at arear end of the main body 1 and the auxiliary grip 7 provided at a sideface of the main body 1.

An upper face of a front end portion of the main body 1 is provided withthe vibrating apparatus 8 for assisting a pressing force for pressingthe diamond bit 5 to the concrete face to thereby generate a pulsatingvibration at the main body 1. According to the vibrating apparatus 8, asshown FIG. 3, an upper face of the bracket portion 9 formed at the frontend portion of the main body 1 is attached with the frame member 10, andthe frame member 10 is formed with two of the rotating shafts 11arranged in parallel with each other in a direction orthogonal to adirection of extending the bit drive shaft. As shown by FIG. 4,respectives of the rotating shafts 11 are symmetrically attached withthe eccentric weights 12. Further, the rotating shafts 11 are attachedwith the gears 13 brought in mesh with each other and the rotatingshafts 11 are rotated in synchronism with each other in directionsreverse to each other by gears 13. The motor 14 is connected to an endportion of one of the rotating shafts 11 is connected with the motor 14and a pulsating vibrating force is exerted to the main body 1 along anaxial direction of the bit drive shaft 4 by rotating the eccentricweights 12 attached symmetrically by rotating the respective rotatingshafts 11 rotated in the reverse directions by the motor 14.

The pulsating vibrating force generated at the main body 1 is propagatedto the diamond bit 5 via the bit drive shaft 4 and operated as apressing force for pressing the front end of the bit to concrete. Thepressing force by the vibrating apparatus 8 is synthesized with apressing force for pressing the concrete drill to the concrete face bythe operator to produce large face pressure between the diamond bit 5and the concrete face by a larger pressing force. The pressing force isproduced by pulsation by the vibrating apparatus 8 and therefore, thepress pressure between the diamond bit 5 and the concrete face ispulsatingly changed and chips are evacuated from between the diamond bit5 and the concrete face to thereby enable to prevent a reduction in adriving function by the chips. It is preferable to set a weight and anouter diameter of the eccentric weight 12 attached to the rotating shaft11 such that a pulsation of a maximum of about ±30 kgf in term of thepressing force is generated. Further, it is preferable to set arevolution number of the motor 14 such that a frequency of the pulsationbecomes about 50 through 300 per minute.

As a result of an experiment of carrying out drilling operation toconcrete by a bit having a hole diameter of 16 mm to 36 mm when theoperator sets the pressing force for pressing the concrete drill to ±15kgf and the maximum value of the vibrating force by the eccentricweights 12 by the above-described embodiment to ±30 kgf in comparisonwith a case in which the vibrating force is not exerted, according tothe concrete drill embodying the vibrating apparatus 8 of the invention,in any cases of the hole diameter, an increase in the drilling speed of50% or more can be confirmed. Meanwhile, it can be confirmed that thestructural body propagating sound is less than 60 dB in any of the holediameters and to degree almost same as that of the concrete drill whichdoes not exert the vibrating force.

According to the above-described embodiment, the motor 14 for operatingthe vibrating apparatus 8 is arranged separately from the motor 2 fordriving the bit and therefore, the vibrating apparatus can be attachedto an existing concrete drill which is not provided with a vibratingapparatus to use as a concrete drill having the vibrating apparatus andan efficiency of operation of drilling concrete by utilizing existingconcrete drill can be increased.

FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 show other embodiment, the vibrating apparatus 15 isincluded at inside of the main body 1 and is operated by the motor 2driving to rotate the bit drive shaft 4 via the belt 16. According tothe vibrating apparatus 15, the weight 19 formed with the spiral groove18 at an outer peripheral face thereof in an endless shape is arrangedon an inner side of the cylindrical rotating member 17 arranged atinside of the main body 1 slidably in an axis line direction of thedrive shaft 3, and the weight 19 is operated to reciprocate by rotatingthe cylindrical rotating member 17 by loosely fitting the projection 20formed to project from an inner peripheral face of the cylindricalrotating member 17 to the spiral groove 18. The cylindrical rotatingmember 17 is connected to the motor 2 by the belt 16 and is made torotate when the drive shaft 3 is rotated. By rotating the projection 20by rotating the cylindrical rotating member 17, the weight 19 is drivento reciprocate by the spiral groove 18 along the drive shaft 3 tothereby exert a pulsating vibrating force to the main body 1.

A revolution number of the cylindrical rotating member 17 is set todecelerate such that a frequency of pulsation by the vibrating apparatus15 becomes about 50 through 300 per minute. According to theabove-described embodiment, the vibrating apparatus 15 is operated byutilizing the motor 2 for driving the bit and therefore, it is notnecessary to separately provide driving means of a motor or the like foroperating the vibrating apparatus and the concrete drill can bedownsized.

FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 describe still other embodiment, and according to theembodiment, the vibrating apparatus 21 provided with a moving coilmovable on a direction in parallel with the bit drive shaft 4 isincluded in the main body 1. According to the vibrating apparatus 21,the weight 23 is slidably mounted to the guide rod 22 installed inparallel with the drive shaft 3 and the movable coil 24 is integrallyformed at an outer periphery of the weight 23. An outer peripheral sideof the movable coil 24 is arranged with the magnet 25 by being separatedfrom an outer peripheral face of the movable coil 24 with an intervaltherebetween and the weight 23 is moved to reciprocate along the guiderod 22 by making alternating current flow to the movable coil 24 tothereby provide vibration of pulsating the main body 1. Further, thedampers 26 are arranged to end portions of reciprocal movement of theweight 23 to thereby prevent the weight 23 from emitting impact sound atthe end portions of the reciprocal movement.

Further, a frequency of the alternating current applied to the movablecoil 24 may be set such that a frequency of the weight 23 by thevibrating apparatus 21 becomes about 50 through 300 per minute.According to the above-described embodiment, a drive portionconstituting the vibrating apparatus 21 is small and therefore, theconcrete drill including the vibrating apparatus can further bedownsized.

Further, the invention is not limited to the above-described embodimentsbut can variously be modified or changed and the invention naturallycovers the modifications.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

As described above, according to the invention, the main body portion ofthe concrete drill is exerted with the vibrating force along the axialdirection of the bit drive shaft and therefore, the pulsatingly changedface pressure can be applied to the concrete face by the diamond bit andthereby, the large pressing force can be produced to supplement thepressing force by the operator, and the fast drilling function can beachieved by preventing a reduction in the function by the chips bypulsating the pressing force. Further, the vibrating force is generatedat the main body to thereby exert the face pressure to the diamond bitand therefore, the structural body propagating sound is not emitted asin the hammer drill and therefore, the operation in construction at aliving site as in a site of reforming or the like can be carried out.

1. A concrete drill, comprising: a main body; a drive source provided inthe main body; a bit drive shaft projected forward from the main body; adiamond bit attached to a front end of the bit drive shaft; and avibrating apparatus provided in the main body for exerting a vibratingforce along the bit drive shaft to the main body, a magnitude of thevibrating force which is variable, wherein the drive source rotates thediamond bit by driving the bit drive shaft, wherein the vibratingapparatus comprises: a frame member attached to a bracket portion formedat the main body; two rotating shafts arranged at the frame member inparallel with each other in a direction orthogonal to a direction ofextending the bit drive shaft; eccentric weights symmetrically attachedto respective ones of the rotating shafts; gears attached to therotating shafts and brought in mesh with each other; a motor connectedto one of the rotating shafts; wherein the rotating shafts are rotatedby the gears in directions reverse to each other in synchronism witheach other; and wherein the vibrating force is exerted to the main bodyby rotating the eccentric weights by rotating the rotating shaftsrotated in the directions reverse to each other by the motor.
 2. Theconcrete drill according to claim 1, wherein a maximum value of thevibrating force exerted along the bit drive shaft to the main body in anupward or downward direction by the vibrating apparatus is 30 kgf.
 3. Aconcrete drill, comprising: a main body; a drive source provided in themain body; a bit drive shaft projected forward from the main body; adiamond bit attached to a front end of the bit drive shaft; and avibrating apparatus provided in the main body for exerting a vibratingforce along the bit drive shaft to the main body, a magnitude of thevibrating force which is variable, wherein the drive source rotates thediamond bit by driving the bit drive shaft, wherein the vibratingapparatus comprises: a cylindrical rotating member arranged at an insideof the main body; a weight arranged on an inner side of the cylindricalrotating member slidably in an axial direction of and mounted to thedrive shaft and including a spiral groove at an outer peripheral face ofthe weight in an endless shape; a projection formed to project from aninner peripheral face of the cylindrical main body; wherein theprojection is loosely fitted to the spiral groove of the weight, and thegroove on the weight is configured such that the rotation of thecylindrical rotating member causes the weight to reciprocate along thedrive shaft which causes the vibrating force to be exerted to the mainbody.
 4. The concrete drill according to claim 3, wherein a maximumvalue of the vibrating force exerted along the bit drive shaft to themain body in an upward or downward direction by the vibrating apparatusis 30 kgf.
 5. A concrete drill, comprising: a main body; a drive sourceprovided in the main body; a bit drive shaft projected forward from themain body; a diamond bit attached to a front end of the bit drive shaft;and a vibrating apparatus provided in the main body for exerting avibrating force along the bit drive shaft to the main body, a magnitudeof the vibrating force which is variable, wherein the drive sourcerotates the diamond bit by driving the bit drive shaft, wherein thevibrating apparatus comprises: a guide rod installed in parallel withthe drive shaft; a weight slidably mounted to the guide rod; a movablecoil formed at an outer periphery of the weight, the movable coil beingmovable together with the weight with respect to the guide rod; and amagnet arranged on an outer peripheral side of the movable coil to beseparated from an outer peripheral face of the movable coil with aninterval therebetween; wherein an alternating current is delivered tothe movable coil which causes the weight to reciprocate along the guiderod which causes the vibrating force exerted to the main body.
 6. Theconcrete drill according to claim 5, wherein dampers are arranged at endportions of a reciprocal movement of the weight.
 7. The concrete drillaccording to claim 5, wherein a maximum value of the vibrating forceexerted along the bit drive shaft to the main body in an upward ordownward direction by the vibrating apparatus is 30 kgf.